2021 Coeur d’Alene Art Auction / Lot 137
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Charles M. Russell (1864 – 1926)
Antelopes (ca. 1883-84)
watercolor on paper
6 × 5.5 inches
signed lower right
Steer Roper (ca. 1884-87)
watercolor on paper
2.75 × 5.5 inches
Woman Chopping Wood (ca. 1884)
watercolor on paper
2.75 × 5.5 inches
Elk (ca. 1884)
watercolor on paper
3.75 × 5.75 inches
Antelopes is recorded as reference number CR.PC.38, Steer Roper is recorded as CR.PC.410, Woman Chopping Wood is recorded as CR.PC.313, and Elk is recorded as CR.PC.93 in the C. M. Russell Catalogue Raisonné.
Several appraisals and a letter from Robert C. Bjork detailing his purchase of these watercolors will accompany the lot.
PROVENANCE
Treasure and Trash, Chantilly, Virginia
Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Bjork, Fairfax, Virginia, 1972
Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada, 2008
Private collection, Reno, Nevada